Ups and downs at work.

[rolling rock]

Working for a major distribution center has its times. After quite a busy period, we were informed yesterday we have a few slow weeks upon us. Looking at 6 hour shifts only. They offered VTO for the upcomming week. Thats unpaid time off. If you can afford it.

I took just one day. Monday. Some took the whole week. Now this can change. More product etc.... Some of the temps got laid off. Worse gets to worse i will open a claim for partial unemployment. Really bad timing. With a decent tax return due monday, looks like i will not be spending it on a whim.

Just something to deal with. Never seems like a happy medium. Either your working 45-50 hour weeks or not enough to pay the bills. Been there 5+ years now, so really have seen it all. This is TEMPORARY.

 

[Kirk_R]

Who do you work for? Maybe it product the rest of us may want to consume? Which ultimately helps you out...

 

[metzican]

I feel your pain. I work in an industry that can have there similar ups and downs. I've been there 4 years now and it nice to know I'm not on the bottom of the totem poll to be laid off in slow times. But I can go from making great money to mediocre overnight. Its hard to plan anything the one thing I have done since all these ups and down is have a emergency cash fund and base all my finances on the less of the two. So when I'm making great money I can save and spend and such. But when I'm slow I can still pay all my bills and not dig into any of these accounts. This way If I do get laid off which is always a possibility it will suck but suck less. For the last 6 months I've been working 200+hrs in two weeks and 80hrs for two weeks back and forth. Now I have been cut to 80hrs per two week check. Got the email last night at 8pm. This may not seem bad but my pay is based on working a lot of overtime on a 2week 14+hr days and 2weeks of nothing. The biggest thing that drives me nuts is I can't plan vacations, trips, projects at home. Everything has to be flexible which I don't like. I guess if you know this is temporary get some of the projects done at home that you have been putting off until it picks back up.

 

[rolling rock]

Opened a claim yesterday. It should no problem collecting partial unemployment.